For example, there was the Nokia age, the iTunes age, the smartphone age and, for the past few years, the podcast age. This September, the first ever Dublin Podcast Festival will see some of the leading figures in the industry descend on the Irish capital. Meanwhile, My Dad Wrote A Porno is a long-running podcast from Jamie Morton, who found out that his father had, indeed, written an erotic novel. This is all a far cry from as recently as 2005 when the word ‘podcast’ was named the Oxford English Dictionaries Word of the Year. “What makes podcasts so enjoyable is not only their ease of access but also the vast quantities of podcasts available to download for free,” said the organisers of the Dublin Podcast Festival.